Here amidst the nearly-all-white Millionaires who Hate Trump there is a small church that, a couple of years ago, decided to burnish its tolerance credentials by hiring an Indian-American pastor. He moved into the parsonage with his husband and their two children, neither of whom share any genetic material (or race) with the two fathers.
As the endowment was drained by this family (total comp, including the real estate value, of about $200,000 per year), some parishioners began grumbling about the minister’s performance. According to these folks, essentially every sermon boiled down to scolding the deplorables among the congregation for insufficient zeal regarding helping undocumented immigrants, fighting for Hillary, etc. They agreed with the minister’s political sentiments, but felt that the sermons were repetitious and boring compared to those offered by his predecessor.
When some of the folks on the congregation’s board raised questions about the minister’s on-the-job performance, he instantly shut them down with “Do you have a problem with brown people?” Game. Set. Match. (on the town’s clay courts, of course!)
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It is really sad to hear that Millionaires who Hate Trump don’t unconditionally support brown people and undocumented-ness, or at least have insufficient zeal.
I am also brown Indian, but waited several years to become resident and citizen the legal way. I was hoping to atone for that by moving to your non-deplorable neighborhood and becoming proud undocumented home and car-owner (of course electric preferred). So now they won’t simply share their home and cars just because somebody doesn’t have titles and such documents?
From your description it sounds like America needs to quarantine and nuke your neighborhood.
Sounds like dear pastor is considering a discrimination lawsuit if/when let go.
Bobby: I think we’re safe from being quarantined because the Millionaires for Obama wisely forbade the construction of any cell phone towers within our fair suburb. Nobody who discovers our town will be able to call for reinforcements!
“Do you have a problem with brown people?”
It’s quite possible to respond with a specific list of things that the guy has said or done or not done. This has been understood for over half a century.
Also, you don’t state what kind of church this is, but it sounds like some variety of Protestant. In that case, the board would be involved in managing the budget, so the blame for the decline of the endowment can’t be the pastor’s alone.
Finally, it’s unlikely that there’s any evidence that the church “decided to burnish its tolerance credentials by hiring an Indian-American pastor.”